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Options for active marketing, sales and customer service.

An online marketplace, and a business exchange trading hub for buying and selling goods and services, leaving cash in the business.

Also a dedicated marketing and customer service platform dedicated to customer management, service, loyalty and business.

More on these apps below…

B2B Marketing App & Platform

As a business you may have have unfilled appointments, down-time, unfilled tables, places and rooms, and so on. These are a drain on your business, and will be worth nothing at all tomorrow.

Or you may have have unsold stock, equipment, plant and machinery. Office, retail and storage space costs real money to keep, and disposing of any surplus or unwanted items creates additional cost.

The question is, how do you deal with either of these issues AND get new leads & customers? reduce your costs & overheads? and keep your cash in your business?

How many of these boxes can you tick?

You have…

unfilled appointments or empty/spare time in your calendar?

surplus or unused goods/stock?

spare equipment, furniture, plant, etc?

unsold/unfilled places at your events, courses?

empty tables, unfilled bookings, unsold rooms?

goods and services you want to sell as a promotion – to tempt new customers?

And you want to …

generate new leads, customers, referrals & repeat business

reduce your business costs

keep more cash in your business

fill those seats, places, tables & rooms

have built-in promotion and advertising to a network of other members and business owners

be invited to regular networking and business to business events

The solution…

Would it not be better to exchange all of this for trade pounds or business credit so that you can buy in new goods and services, and attract new customers and business-to-business opportunities without spending cash from out of your business?

As a member we will help you to become more lean, be more creative, be switched on to using your spare capacity to grow your business more effectively.

Use the form below for a callback. Ben will call you back and answer all your questions.

If you are an existing business and management member you will save the £397 account fee.

If you are not a member already, carry on and contact Ben but you will need to become a premium member in order to qualify for the free account. Our premium membership grades starts from as little as £10pm.

Or you can email any questions you have to us at admin(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)buisnesswessex.org.uk

Service, loyalty & rewards

A dedicated marketing and customer service platform dedicated to customer management, service, loyalty and business.

Some examples of the return on investment… “39.34% redemption rate of an individual offer sent” “34% increase in retail sales from one campaign” “Up to 971% ROI on a marketing campaign” “Increased engagement on Facebook by 94% in 4 days” “Boost in sales by signing up 266 loyalty club members in 3 months” “An impressive Email Open Rate of 35.8%”

This platform provides the all-in-one solution to your marketing needs. Our simple to use, automated marketing platform provides an environment to manage and deliver regular communications to your customers in an efficient way that builds their loyalty.

You can communicate with your customers via the platform, 24/7, sending personalised offers to encourage them to return to your business time and time again. As well as pre-built campaigns, you can also send one-off offers to increase footfall and sales at quieter times, in addition to rewarding your customers with points and incentives to acknowledge their loyalty.

Proven experience has led to increases in up to 1060% in users return on their marketing investment. With easy, real time statistics showing the performance of every campaign, users can be sure that they are spending their marketing budget in the most effective way.

One of our members, Chris Peacock, runs this platform on behalf of our members. He is also able to provide members with professional email design, copy writing, website development and social media management services so that our members can focus on what they do best; running their business.

Or you can email any questions you have to us at admin(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)buisnesswessex.org.uk

Online Marketplace

More and more people wish to support their local retailers, but enjoy the convenience of buying online. The online marketplace provides the ideal solution, especially for local businesses who don’t yet have online shops or e-commerce solutions.

Buying locally and online

Customers can purchase online and then either call and collect, or have their purchases delivered.

By purchasing products through the Marketplace they will be supporting you, a local business.

Use the form below for a callback. Andy will call you back and answer all your questions.

If you are an existing business and management member you only pay £20pm and no setup costs to put your products and services up on teh e-shop instead of teh usual £50pm – a saving of 60% – That’s your membership repaid in only 7 months!

If you are not a member already, carry on and contact Andy but you will need to become a premium member in order to qualify for the discounted marketplace account. Our premium membership grades starts from as little as £10pm.

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